iometer testing

The following is some notes i have around the parameters i usually use during testing. There is a good document at ixbt labs on the various tests and settings….

For a 1GB test set the sectors to : 2048000

Typical benchmarks; (which you will need to add)

128K 100% Read – Sequential

128K 100% Write – Sequential

Remember to bump the workers up to 5 or so. You can set the mixes across all the workers if you select the PC object.

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/hddide2k1feb/iometer.html